Ten relatives of Kalimpong victim test COVID-19 positive

Six relatives of the Kalimpong woman who died of COVID-19 have tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday.

As
per reports, four relatives of the 44-year-old lady who had been the
second one to die in North Bengal after contracting COVID-19 had also
been tested positive for coronavirus recently.

The woman from Kalimpong, who was also the first one from North
Bengal to test positive for COVID-19, had passed away at on March 30
last.

She was admitted to the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH), Siliguri.

The patient had a travel history and was kept in the isolation ward of the NBMCH after she tested positive.

The woman had returned from Chennai for her daugher’s treatment and later tested positive for COVID-19.

Meanwhile, the total number of coronavirus cases in the country has increased to 2301 on Friday.

The death toll due to coronavirus cases in the country has reached 56 on Friday.

Prime
Minister NarendraModi on Thursday chaired a high level meeting with the
chief minister of states and union territories through a video
conference.

He urged the States to manage the crisis at the district level and to focus on testing, isolation and quarantine facilities.

He
also asked the States to upgrade the healthcare human resource, conduct
online training of frontline workers along with increasing the strength
of existing capacity through involvement of retired health workers from
Government and private hospitals, NGOs, NSS & NSOs.

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Six relatives of the Kalimpong woman who died of COVID-19 have tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday.
As per reports, four relatives of the 44-year-old lady who had been the second one to die in North Bengal after contracting COVID-19 had also been tested positive for coronavirus recently.